Zareef Ahmed

A polyglot programmer and enterprise architect having hands on experience in Ruby,Python, PHP, Perl, Java and many other languages. Specialist in Devops, Cloud migration and implementation on Amazon Cloud, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure along with Hadoop programming for big data processing.

AWS certification exams are quite popular and in demand. AWS is an open cloud provider with largest market share.

Certification gives you any benefits or not, is always a debatable topic. I am not going into that aspects of certifications, in my view, if you do not see any value in certifications, you can still use them as a benchmark of your own learning journey.

Amazon has multiple certification exams under four categories. These categories are Architecting, Developing, Operations and Specialties. …

An architect is a person who is responsible for how development team will come out with product. He handles how different components will talk to each other, he even decides what different components will be used to produce stable and secure product.

So, architect is generally responsible for : –

What different components will be used?

How those components will interact with each other?

How an application will handle fail over and downtime of any specific component.

He is the person who is normally involved with the project since very early phase.

Java 9 has been released in the market. It has lots of new improvements and additions. In this article, I am enlisting 9 things of this major release.

Introduction of Jshell

Now, java has joined the league of languages with a shell. Languages like python, ruby and R were having a handy shell in which we can evaluate our code on the fly. Now java has introduced Jshell using which we can eval our java code easily. The jshell tool provides an interactive command-line interface for evaluatin declarations statements and expressions of the java programming language.…

In August 2017, AWS launched VMware for Amazon Cloud service after one year of work with vmware. It was announced at VMworld. It was in beta access since sometime for some selected customers.

Now you can take your VMware load to AWS while still managing your inhouse cloud operations. In this article, I am enlist some of the highlights of this service.
1. Currently it available in only US west (Oregon) region.
2. You can bring your existing licences with you while moving your load to this service.…

AWS is market leader in open cloud space but other players are making inroads into its market share. Google cloud is one of them. In this talk, we are going to cover 10 differences between Google Cloud and AWS. Major focus is on the features which covers common use cases. You can take this talk as stepping stone to understand another cloud service provider if you know one of them.…